Ongoing Activities and Future Events

Hans Hirter, IACETH, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Brig, Switzerland, wonderfully located in one of the major valleys of the Alps, is getting ready to host the first edition of the joint ICAM and MAP Meeting! ICAM, the traditional biennial conference on mountain meteorology held in one of the Alpine countries, is an optimal platform to enhance the dissemination of MAP result.

The International Scientific Programme Committee, composed of C. Schär (CH, chair), P. Bougeault (F), M. Gajic-Capka (CRO), G. Gregoric (SI), R. Houze (USA), G. Poulos (USA), R. Ranzi (I), R. Steinacker (A), P. Winkler (D), invites you to submit a short abstract for an oral or poster presentation. The submission is handled online under www.icam2003.ch. The communications may address the scientific topics of ICAM/MAP:

dry and moist flow across and around high topography (Foehn, gap flow, mountain waves, gravity wave breaking, turbulence);
orographic clouds and precipitation;
hydrological mechanisms;
thermally driven flows and boundary layer structure; snow and ice in mountainous terrain; mountain climates;
operational analysis and forecasting challenges in complex terrain.

The papers may cover theoretical, observational or numerical modelling aspects and MAP activities in a broad sense. In particular, we also encourage societal impact studies with direct relevance to extreme weather events in the Alps. A short abstract (max. one page) to one of the above subjects can be submitted online under www.icam2003.ch --> ‘abstract submission’, or via email as plain text to abstracts@icam2003.ch. If you choose email please make sure to include all requested information. i.e. author(s), institution(s), abstract title, main text, and corresponding author’s address (see also instructions on our website).

The time table as of today is as follows:

deadline for submission of short abstracts is 12 January 2003;
authors will be informed about acceptance of their contribution as oral / poster by 28 February 2003 The third circular will be sent out by the end of January 2003, with more detailed information on the programme, hotel reservation, travel information, etc;
the conference programme will be available on the web by mid March 2003;
deadline for early registration will be 31 March 2003 deadline for extended abstracts of two to four pages is 6 April 2003;

The local organizing committee is looking forward to seeing you in Brig for the first combined ICAM and MAP Meeting in 2003!

Activities within MAP

date	event
May 19-23, 2003	MAP Meeting 2003 and Int. Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM), Brig, Switzerland (http://www.icam2003.ch)
May 23, 2003	Fifth MSC Meeting in Brig, Switzerland
May 23-24, 2003	Joint ninth IGP/sixth MAP-NWS Board Meeting in Brig, Switzerland

Future events related to MAP

date	event
Nov 18-22, 2002	2nd European Conference on Radar Meteorology (ERAD), Delft, The Netherlands (http://www.copernicus.org/erad/index2002.html)
Dec 12-13, 2002	SRNWP workshop on numerical techniques, Toulouse, France (http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Lead_Centres/web_LC_NT.html)
Apr 2003	SRNWP workshop on verification, De Bilt, The Netherlands (http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Lead_Centres/LC_Workshops_with_reports.html)
Apr 6-11, 2003	EGS-AGU-EUG joint assembly, Nice, France(http://www.copernicus.org/egsagueug)
May 5-7, 2003	SRNWP workshop on physical adaptation, Vienna, Austria (http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Lead_Centres/LC_Workshops_with_reports.html)
Jun 30-Jul 11, 2003	IUGG 2003, Sapporo, Japan (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/iugg)
Oct 27-29, 2003	Fifth international SRNWP workshop on non-hydrostatic modeling, Bad Orb, Germany (http://srnwp.cscs.ch/Lead_Centres/srnwp_2003_leaflet.pdf)